If you have normal vision and can read, there are thousands of things you do every day without even thinking even about it, little problems you solve with just a glance — like knowing which button to press.

Alessandro gets a feel for the challenges with white cane and Tactile flooring

The topics of the conversations with blind individuals that I realized with Kalna Katsuom and Alessandro Mavilio included the way of dreaming, meaning of colors, sensibility for movements and speed, recognizing people, and the use of media, among others. And the first thing we learnt was that each individual experience of visual impairment is different and personal. So when you read the transcripts of the conversations below please keep this in mind.

We were interested in embracing otherness through dialog. Ordinarily the blind adjust to the world of the seeing, but what would happen if the opposite were true? What if we were to learn more about the subtle culture and language of visually impaired? Explore for yourself in the following conversations: